Indeed. I have five tiers of government: village, town, county, state and federal. I get to vote for a chief executive at each of those levels, and I have at least eleven legislators representing me … (View Post)

Well, as @rcs1000 has pointed out before, we have the "Indian variant" here in the US too, but absolutely no-one is wetting themselves about it. Here in New York, the mask mandate was effec… (View Post)

Simple reason is that most of the tube lines and stations, especially in the centre, were built by separate companies, sometimes competing sometimes cooperating. (View Post)

1990s. Before that it was unpainted aluminium and before that red. The Underground “roundel” has always been red white and blue since it was adopted in early 20th century. Other colour combinations o… (View Post)

Very generally, “rowt” is the preferred pronunciation west and south of New York City. “Root” is the preferred pronunciation in the NYC tri-state area and New England. But as always in these things y… (View Post)